The Australian Health Protection Principal Committee has been asked to look at whether hotel quarantine workers having second jobs is safe.
While some hesitation remains about getting vaccinated against COVID-19, most Australians will get the jab according to the results of two new surveys.
Over the last two decades, the world's ice sheets atop Greenland and Antarctica have become the single largest source of sea-level rise.
As Victoria closely monitors arrivals from South Australia, the state has now gone 18 days without new coronavirus cases or deaths.
Anglicare South Australia says two more workers at its aged care home in Brompton in Adelaide's northern suburbs have tested positive to COVID-19.
An official from the World Health Organization says it is troubling to see growing signs of vaccine misinformation and mistrust.
Australian policy-makers must be willing to turn society upside down to flatten the "mental health curve" stemming from COVID-19, a leading psychiatrist says.
More than 9.6 million people have been infected and 234,000 have died in the country so far.
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